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Side note: did anyone else think the girl with the Persian (I think her name was Yuriko or something) was really cute? Because I did.XP Guess you can tell since I went to the trouble of making a picture of her.:P

Y'know, her hairstyle and clothing tend to remind me of the female tag-along character in Colloseum. Rui or something similar is her name I believe? x.x
But anyways, I agree, she is rather cute XP

I haven't seen the episode as of yet, but judging from the pictures, the best part seems to be the scene featuring the Meowth and the story of its past. Its been a while since they've given a pokémon character a backstory like that, so its a nice addition.
The Pikachu and Hitmonlee battle looks pitifully short though. I expected it to go on a bit longer than that >.>

I have to say that Tetsuya and Masamune have grown on me. Tet still has a boring character design and Masa is still u gly, but their Pokemon are vastly superior to the trainer. And there's the fact that 'rivals' of Ash have never had so much interaction with one another. I find that amazingly cool, since the most we've had in the past must have been there break up by Harrison between Ash and Jackson's Pokemon.

Side note: did anyone else think the girl with the Persian (I think her name was Yuriko or something) was really cute? Because I did.XP Guess you can tell since I went to the trouble of making a picture of her.:P

Hmmm...she does kinda remind me of Hoshika with pigtails. Or am I insane?

About this episode, I quite liked it. Masamune's team is actually pretty cool. But what I didn't like was the Pikachu and Hitmonlee Battle was FAR too short. Hell, even Masamune got a more intense, longer battle with a Take-Downing slab of iron :/ Speaking of such, Metang is pretty awesome...and that's coming from a Metagross Line hater.

Another thing, why the eff are there so many Kanto Pokemon?! In this episode alone, we've seen Electabuzz, Hitmonlee, Persian in important battles, and Venonat, Golduck, Nidoking, Machamp, and Scyther in random battles. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Oak say that Ash using his older team would give him an advantage as they're rarer in Hoenn? Because it doesn't seem like it -.-o

I've just seen this ep, and I liked it quite much. This scene where Tetsuya's Meowth wanted to attack the already fainted Persian was incredibly awesome. Okay, don't get me wrong^^ It's not the fact that I wanted Persian to be attacked, it's just that it's very rare that something like hatred and bitterness is shown that way.
Although Tetsuya irritates me, his Meowth is really cool indeed^^

Now to the other happenings.. Masamune's battle was good, I kinda liked the boy with the Electabuzz, he looked funny xD
I have no problem with the shortness of Ash's match, it just showed that his opponent didn't train his Hitmonlee that well or that he just had bad luck ^^
In my opinion, it would look rather unrealistic if all battles look as though both competitors are almost equal.
About the drawing-style...Masamune looked strange sometimes, but I can live with it =) Good episode overall!

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From the pics it looked like a really cool ep. Masamune has a cool team of pokemon. His last badge was kinda plain yet neat looking. Its good to see Gligar and Girafarig get more screentime. Growlithe and Steelix have had enoung i think. Swampert and Metang definetly need more screen time. So what is up with the Meowth in Boots? It always look angry. Can it talk like TR's Meowth or does it just say its name. It seems like it should talk to me. Its a cool Meowth but its too full of angst. I can't wait to see more of Tetsuya in action. I really like Tetsuya and Masamune. They seem like cool characters.

Off topic i saw some people talking about characters that have made appearences in random episodes. The dude with the Surskit in th Izabe Island contest(I think thats the one) looks just like the guy who owned the Poliwrath in the episode where misty's Poliwhirl evolved into Politoed.

...Funny how everyone is saying the Electabuzz dude is ugly, when I suspect he's supposed to be black. I mean, his outfit, hat, hair and... totally inappropiate HUGE lips all point to him being so. o.o;

Also, his voice was totally out of sync with his lip movements. Strange.

Moving on...

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The girl with the Persian (Does she have a name? *goes to check credits*) was frikking cute. :3 Hot as hell, actually. And those adorable knee-high socks! I love her. <3

What was up with the Electabuzz trainer's lips?! They were 00ber weird...

I quite like Masamune's team, we haven't seen some of those Pokemon for quite a while but what I did notice is his Steelix is a little smaller than the other Steelix's that we have encountered so far.
I can't wait to see his Gligar battle, we haven't seen a real battle with a Gligar. It sure is a cool Pokemon and now there is his Metang.
I like Masamune's Swampert aswell, it would make a good opponent for Grovyle.

Overall: 8.1/10
Exciting episode when it came to the battles, we saw Masamune's team of 6 and it is a great intro to the Hoenn League.